{"id":152394,"date":"2025-08-17T05:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/152394\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:49:09","slug":"cowboys-fear-jonathan-mingo-injured-right-pcl-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/152394\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys fear Jonathan Mingo injured right PCL, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755409749_271_archer_todd.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Todd ArcherAug 17, 2025, 12:09 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b0fc8fb7-9dbe-e574-9008-6f0ee7c6b234\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> fear wide receiver <a data-player-guid=\"25762dc3-737c-851c-92fd-84e8cf31054a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426485\/jonathan-mingo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Mingo<\/a> suffered an injury to the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in the third quarter of Saturday&#8217;s 31-13 loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"38248455-3da4-84e4-8090-98b5cc38ffdc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-ravens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>One play after a 49-yard reception, Mingo leaped for a <a data-player-guid=\"874bf8b4-e29a-45ac-3deb-a36404104c8a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4360698\/joe-milton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Milton III<\/a> pass near the end zone and landed awkwardly. He limped to the sideline, went into the medical tent and was immediately ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said Mingo was among a few players who will undergo more testing Sunday. An MRI will help determine the severity of the injury, but he might need to miss multiple weeks, which would impact the Cowboys&#8217; decisions on the 53-man roster to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45990256\/2025-nfl-preseason-week-2-takeaways-analysis\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755409749_445_r1532753_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45995887\/ceedee-lamb-fined-being-run-official\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1529888_2_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Cowboys acquired Mingo and a seventh-round pick in 2025 for a 2025 fourth-rounder from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"647c27bf-ab86-550e-5b83-91c29e73e4a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>. In eight games, he caught five passes for 46 yards, but he did not have a reception from starting quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"5f09781b-6b0b-7325-049b-a91e60d794e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2577417\/dak-prescott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dak Prescott<\/a>, who missed the final nine games in 2024 because of a hamstring avulsion that required surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Mingo had a productive offseason and had enough moments during training camp practices in Oxnard, California, that the Cowboys saw a role for him as a No. 4 or No. 5 wide receiver, as well as on special teams.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, former Cowboys running back <a data-player-guid=\"74394a0b-53f2-5656-5b7b-1c69c62600c6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3051392\/ezekiel-elliott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ezekiel Elliott<\/a> played most of that season with a partially torn PCL that did not require surgery. Elliott played in every game that year but was forced to wear a brace that limited his explosiveness.<\/p>\n<p>With Mingo&#8217;s availability in question, it might help the roster chances of <a data-player-guid=\"072d0980-0fc0-5f62-5ab5-e3897028a4aa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4249417\/jalen-tolbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Tolbert<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"24cf72d7-f9aa-3d1d-b71b-5f9083110c0b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4692835\/jalen-brooks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brooks<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"b474dfdc-9ccc-3669-b7fc-e5d7652bb480\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/5083754\/ryan-flournoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Flournoy<\/a> in the roles behind <a data-player-guid=\"2994891b-8927-33cb-6999-e809560d0545\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4241389\/ceedee-lamb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CeeDee Lamb<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"ab0fe70b-0fb4-fc8e-55e1-8f5204851a9d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426354\/george-pickens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Pickens<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"a755ab73-db5a-abfb-f236-49af16b5206e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3676833\/kavontae-turpin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KaVontae Turpin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd ArcherAug 17, 2025, 12:09 AM ET Close Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-152394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115042541114733004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}